Questions tagged [xfa]
XFA stands for XML Forms Architecture, a family of proprietary XML specifications that was suggested and developed by JetForm to enhance the processing of web forms. It can be also used in PDF files starting with PDF 1.5 specification. XML Forms Architecture was not standardized as an ISO standard
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How to generate multiple copies of same PDF XFA form using iText7?
We were using Acroforms before and able to generate multiple copies of the same form using PdfMerger. After we switched to XFA to handle dynamic forms, we are not able to generate multiple copies ...
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Extracting field labels and details from IRS XFA/AcroForm using Python
I am currently working with IRS forms (U.S. Internal Revenue Service), which are in PDF format, specifically XFA or AcroForm. My aim is to extract not only the field names but also the corresponding ...
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How to create a PDF that is editable in the browser?
I stumbled upon a curious feature on a hosted PDF document, you can download a slice of the pdf here. Notice the buttons at the bottom, the red one cleans the page, and the blue one prints the ...
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Getting the Adoble LiveCycle Java libraries from an Adobe X Pro disc
I need to pre-fill an Adobe LiveCycle form and then provide it to a user for further editing, fully functional (the form is rather complex, including JS scripts and xmls). From reading here and on ...
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Modifying a specific field in a Adobe editable PDF using PDFStamper(Append mode) is doubling file size
As per requirement, I have an editable PDF (created from XDP and XML using Adobe) and I want to edit a specific binding field using itext5.
Was able to achieve this using pdfstamper in append mode. ...
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Programatically fill Government PDF (XFA dynamic)
I need to fill a form from a XFA PDF generated with LiveCycle. I'm using PDFBox 3.0.0-beta1 atm and I've tried iText 4.2.0 and PDFBox 2.0.28 but with no success. Anything I do to the PDF, results in a ...
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Fill pdf form using react [duplicate]
I have this form standard form of lease and i need to fill this with dynamic values using javascript. I tried using pdf-lib to get all the fields but it gives me empty array with some warning Trying ...
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Fill XFA pdf forms using python
I am trying to fill XFA pdf forms using python, however I don’t see any library that can perform this.
I have used fillpdf to update the forms but that does not work.
Below is my code:
import fillpdf
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PDFBox, iTextPdfPDF: pdf form returning no fields
I have a pdf file which has several form fields which can be filled with values, like text fields, radio box etc.
I am trying to manipulate the fields programmatically by reading the pdf. I have tried ...
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How to do small edit to XFA form using Adobe Acrobat
I have several PDF forms in XFA format that I need to change a single line of text in. The problem is that they have a massive number of equations & other fillable areas built into them. The ...
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Automatically Fill XFA Pdf form with iText 7 in java?
I am trying to fill a XFA pdf form with data automatically using iText 7 in Java. I use Maven with IntelliJ IDEA to setup the environment and import iText libraries. Since it is a XFA pdf the pdf file ...
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Trigger javascript function or event inside a PDF
I'm trying to fill a XFA PDF using JavaScript/Java. The PDF is not made by me; I need to download it, fill it and upload back.
The PDF has a button for Import XML which does the work just fine, but I ...
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How to read XFA form field and data in Java and how to convert XFA form PDF to normal PDF
I need to read XFA PDF form filled data in Java. And also we need to convert the XFA form PDF to normal PDF.
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Using iText7 (C#), is there a way to modify the value in a field to include an href (Link to a website)?
I am working on a prototype using iText7 for C#. The PDF I am using is an XFAForm PDF and was created in Adobe Live Cycle Designer. From my research, XFAForms do not support annotations. I was ...
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Form-fill XFA PDF with PDFBox
I'm trying to fill an XFA form using the example file using PdfBox 2 or 3 from:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12964530/XFAFormFiller.java
I'm not so used to PDFBox so not sure how ...
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